The Sweet Spot

When thirteen-year-old Sam Barrette’s baseball coach tells her that her attitude’s holding her back, she wants to hit him in the head with a line drive. Why shouldn’t she have an attitude? As the only girl playing in the 13U league, she’s had to listen to boys and people in the stands screaming things like “Go play softball,” all season, just because she’s a girl. Her coach barely lets her play, even though she’s one of the best hitters on the team.

All stakes now rest on Sam’s performance at baseball training camp. But the moment she arrives, miscommunication sets the week up for potential disaster. Placed at the bottom with the weaker players, she will have to work her way up to A league, not just to show Coach that she can be the best team player possible, but to prove to herself that she can hold a bat with the All-Star boys.

When thirteen-year-old Sam Barrette’s baseball coach tells her that her attitude’s holding her back, she wants to hit him in the head with a line drive. Why shouldn’t she have an attitude? As the only girl playing in the 13U league, she’s had to listen to boys and people in the stands screaming things like “Go play softball,” all season, just because she’s a girl. Her coach barely lets her play, even though she’s one of the best hitters on the team.

Series Blog

Today on Middle Grade Minded, author Stacy Barnett Mozer shared some tips on how she was able to take a real life camping trip and turn it into her character’s next adventure. We are looking forward to the release of The Perfect Trip on Friday. Stacy is celebrating with a virtual launch on Thursday from 7 – […]

Spellbound River Press is excited to announce that it has acquired the rights to Sporty Girl Book blogger Stacy Barnett Mozer’s self-published middle grade novel, The Sweet Spot, and subsequent books in a series about the obstacles one 13-year-old girl faces as she pursued her dream of playing baseball. Spellbound River Press will rerelease The Sweet Spot in March 2016, with the sequel, A Perfect Trip, releasing in March 2017.